Apprentice Quality Engineer

Summary

GP Acoustics Ltd manufacture transducers (speakers) from their 2,500m2 clean modern production facility based on Claydon Business Park, Great Blakenham. They are currently looking for an apprentice Quality Engineer to join and learn within their team.

Annual wage: £12,480 a year
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Training course: Engineering technician (level 3)
Hours: Monday - Thursday, between 8:30am and 5.00pm, and Friday, between 8:30am and 3:45pm.
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 6 January
Duration: 3 years 6 months
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Initial responsibilities shall include:

Learning about our products and the build processes
Enhancing our goods inward inspection
Carry out in-process inspection and testing on our finished products.

As you grow into the role, it is expected you will:

Learn more about quality management
Become involved in non-conformance reporting and root cause analysis
We will provide full training in relation to ISO9001 standard.

In this role you will become part of a small team and be mentored in all aspects of loudspeaker design, production and quality management. The role is designed to help us to further develop the quality department.

Where you’ll work

G P Acoustics (UK) Ltd, Unit 111-112, Claydon Business Park, Great Blakenham

Ipswich

IP6 0NL

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

WEST SUFFOLK COLLEGE

Your training course

Engineering technician (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Your training plan

The learner will be studying the Engineering Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard qualification.
Day release to West Suffolk College

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

Maths and English (grade 5)
Science (grade 3)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Number skills
Initiative

Other requirements

A role in quality can be challenging but rewarding. We need to be disciplined in our approach to drive quality forward while maintaining working relationships. There will be manual work and possibly long periods of time (1-4hours) carrying out the same task.

About this company

Manufacture of transducers (speakers) from our 2,500m2 clean modern production facility based on Claydon Business Park, Great Blakenham.

After this apprenticeship

Could lead to a full-time employment on completion of apprenticeship.

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